Submerged Lands

Submerged Lands

Soil lying beneath water or on the oceanside of the tideland.

Minerals found in the soil of tidal and submerged lands belong to the state in its sovereign right. The federal government, however, has full control over all the natural resources discovered in the soil under the ocean floor beyond the three-mile belt extending from the ordinary low-water mark along the coast.

The premise of this technique is that the ratio of the net rent of a dry land site to the net operating income (NOI) of the dry land improved property should be similar to the ratio of the net rent of a submerged land site to the NOI of the submerged land improved property.

1] In order to accomplish this purpose, waterfront owners were permitted under the act to obtain title to submerged lands adjacent to their uplands by bulkheading, filling, or permanently improving the submerged lands.

1946), the court addressed the applicability of the Butler Act to extensive improvements the Fort Pierce Financing and Construction Company had made to its riparian uplands and the abutting submerged lands.

The request was made August 28 in a phone call from Jose Bascan of the Governor's Cabinet office to Phil Coram, Chief of the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Bureau of Submerged Lands and Environmental Services.

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